Got me some booty!

[time_on_fire]

A neighbor that I met on freecycle is moving and getting rid of a lot of materials.

I loaded up:

• enough bricks to line the bottom of the truck bed and then some (I plan to pave between the garden beds, but I might make a platform for a garden table to stand on) Some of them are old Mexican bricks! They all have a great patina.
• two above-ground deep

Comments

[eats_veggies]

Awesome!!!! I love scoring free stuff!

[time_on_fire]

Me too! I've been in scavenging mode lately, but I'm trying hard not to get too many unfinished projects going.

[moonflowerz]

Wow, you got all that stuff for free?!!

I'm intrigued with the idea of freecycle, but I confess I have a bit of stranger danger fear. How did you go about meeting her? Did you correspond for a bit before you went to her house?

I guess that's what I get for growing up on the south side of chicago ;)

PS. I wanna see these mexican bricks! Perhaps a new photo entry coming on with all all this new cool stuff in use???? *hint hint*

[time_on_fire]

I'm very picky about the whole freecycle thing. Where I lived before, when I would give stuff away, I would usually drag it out to the road, outside of my dog yard, so that way I could stay with the dogs in the fence.

Many people do "porch pickup." so I don't get to see them.

I usually take my dog Soap with me, too. He's friendly enough that he's not a liability (like the little black psycho), but he also is very protective. This woman happened to be someone I had met before through horses, and she lived right next to the park that we sometimes went to.

I think down south, we might tend to be a little more open to talking to strangers - perhaps it's a bit of a cultural thing. For instance, when I went to Boston for work, I was amazed at my coworkers who looked at me strangely when all I asked was, "Hey, how's it going?"